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‘Jason Lives’ Director Reveals He Pitched Sequel “Jason vs. Cheech and Chong”!
The franchise almost got *real* weird in the late ’80s!
Director Tom McLoughlin was the man tasked with bringing Jason Voorhees back to life for Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives, and he did so in a way that ensured the sixth installment in the franchise would go on to become one of the most beloved. McLoughlin didn’t return for the seventh film, but there was a time when he was approached to.
Speaking with fellow horror director Mick Garris on the latest episode of Garris’ podcast Post Mortem, McLoughlin revealed his wacky pitch for a Jason Lives follow-up!
“[Producer] Frank Mancuso Jr. came to me… he wanted me to do another film after we did [Jason Lives],” McLoughlin recalled. “He said, ‘What do you think about Freddy and Jason?’ And I go, ‘But Freddy is at New Line.’ He came back and goes, ‘Ah forget it, it’s not gonna work anyway.’ So I said, ‘Ya know what… you guys own Cheech and Chong. What if we do Cheech and Chong Meets Jason?’“
He continued, “But [Frank] said, ‘Ya know what… no – the comedy audience is gonna want that kind of movie, the horror audience is gonna want the other… no, we can’t.’”
Instead, McLoughlin went on to write/direct a few episodes of “Friday the 13th: The Series.” As for the seventh film, well, Jason essentially ended up battling Carrie White.
But hey, Part 3‘s Chuck was basically a bootleg Tommy Chong, so at least we got that!
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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